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Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports

Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports

McDonagh, Eileen
Pappano, Laura

Paperback

Sports GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0195386779
ISBN13: 9780195386776
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 10 2009
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by success. By keeping women from playing with the boys on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano show in vivid detail how women have been unfairly excluded from participating in sports on an equal footing with men. Using dozens of powerful examples--girls and women breaking through in football, ice hockey, wrestling, and baseball, to name just a few--the authors show that sex differences are not sufficient to warrant exclusion in most sports, that success entails more than brute strength, and that sex segregation in sports does not simply reflect sex differences, but actively constructs and reinforces stereotypes about sex differences. For instance, women's bodies give them a physiological advantage in endurance sports, yet many Olympic events have shorter races for women than men, thereby camouflaging rather than revealing women's strengths.

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